Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Oct 01 09:49:54 -0400 2009: > Reformatted excerpts from Michael Stapelberg's message of 2009-09-26: > > truncated date is Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 +0100 1970 > > date_value is "\200" > > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sup/xapian_index.rb:536:in `_dump': year too big to > > marshal > > (ArgumentError) > > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sup/xapian_index.rb:536:in `dump' > > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sup/xapian_index.rb:536:in `index_message' > > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sup/xapian_index.rb:124:in `sync_message' > > At this point I'm hoping that Rich will chime in. :)
This strikes me as a bug in Marshal.dump - it should be able to handle arbitrary dates. I've never messed with custom marshalling functions before, but monkey patching one in could be a workaround. Or we could just truncate the dates before putting them in the index entry. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
